1924 Map of Durbin

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Huttonsville and Mill Creek anchor the northwestern corner of this West Virginia landscape, where the Tygart Valley River winds through the valley floor. To the east, the rugged ridges of the Monongahela National Forest dominate, including Chestnut Ridge and Shavers Mountain. The map illustrates a remote Appalachian interior defined by isolated schools such as the Lee Bell School and Rosenkrantz School, which served the scattered farming and timber communities of the early 1920s.